Data Augmentation and Pseudo-sequence of fNIRS for Depression Recognition

Depression is a mental disorder caused by factors such as genetics, life events and social influences, and has become a major public health problem worldwide. Previous studies have demonstrated the potential of functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) in the diagnosis of depression. However, in the real medical scene, fNIRS data are difficult to obtain, limited in number and suffer from class imbalance. To overcome these problems, in this paper, we propose a novel model for depression identification based on data augmentation and pseudo-sequence of fNIRS. Specifically, the data augmentation using the time masking and warping method generates richer data. Then, a stimulation task-driven data pseudo-sequence method is designed to map the sequence data into pseudo-sequence activation images. Finally, a depression recognition model is established based on the class imbalance loss function. Experiments show that the precision of our depression recognition model reaches 0.94. This scheme transforms fNIRS data into image sequences, which provides a new solution idea for subsequent research.